--- title: Deuteronomy 6:10 (JPS 1917) — And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the lan… · tree and pragmatics description: And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee — great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, Who acts: house, LORD, thou. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, LORD, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:DEU:205 # text = And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee — great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 18 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 unto unto ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 36 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 iobj _ _ 37 — - PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 goodly goodly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obj _ _ 44 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 47 nsubj _ _ 45 didst do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | shall | house | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | shall | the LORD | thee | | the land | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme into land=Destination | | 3 | **swear** | past | LORD | the land | Abraham and Isaac and Jacob | | | unto thy fathers | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | | 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | great cities | thee | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient city=Theme | | 5 | **not** **build** | past · do-support | thou | great cities | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וְהָיָ֞ה כִּ֥י יְבִיאֲךָ֣ ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֜רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִשְׁבַּ֧ע לַאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ לְאַבְרָהָ֛ם לְיִצְחָ֥ק וּֽלְיַעֲקֹ֖ב לָ֣תֶת לָ֑ךְ עָרִ֛ים גְּדֹלֹ֥ת וְטֹבֹ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־בָנִֽיתָ׃ [Deuteronomy 6:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.6.10/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:205` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Deuteronomy 6:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.204/) - next →: [Deuteronomy 6:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.206/) - ↑ back to [Deuteronomy 6:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.6.10/)